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Reading or storing boot data in auxiliary memory of a tape cartridge

US8914665B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 6, 2006
Grant dateDec 16, 2014
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Expiry dateFeb 3, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F11/1469
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A tape drive for exchanging data with a tape cartridge, which has tape media and auxiliary memory that is not tape media, is operable, in response to a boot request from a computer apparatus that is bootable from a kind of initial program load device that is not a tape drive, to read boot data stored on the auxiliary memory and to output the boot data for booting the computer apparatus.

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